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SOC 4190 - Work and Gender
Considers major theories of gender-based inequality at work. Explores gender, disparities in key dimensions of work, such as entry into occupations and jobs; promotion, rank, and authority in organizations; earnings; and conflicts between work and family. Emphasizes the contemporary United States, but includes some cross-national comparisons.
Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4200 - Sex and Gender Go To The Movies
This course will examine the ways in which different mass media help to define our cultural ideas about gender differences and the ways in which feminist scholars have responded to these definitions by criticizing existing media images and by creating some alternatives of their own. The course will examine the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals and consider different forms of feminist theory.
Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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SOC 4220 - Contemporary Social Problems
Explore the processes by which social problems emerge and are defined by collective social action. Sociological perspective on social problems will be studied through case studies of specific issues including eugenics, physical child abuse, sexual abuse, school misbehavior, drugs, smoking and others.
Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission, SOC 2220 recommended.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4230 - Deviance and Social Control
Examines a variety of deviant behaviors in American society and the sociological theories explaining societal reactions and attempts at social control. Focuses on enduring conditions such as drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4310 - Sociology of Compassion: Inequality and the Social Heart
This course will focus on compassion as a cultural practice with political implications. What are the roots of solidarity across social inequalities, occupational groups and political cultures? When does compassion simply stop at feeling, when does it produce individual action, and when might it turn into social change? The course culminates in an analysis of how compassion intersects with social justice and notions of deserving and need.
Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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SOC 4350 - Comparative Gender Stratification
Examines gender stratification - the relative level of equality of men and women in a given group - in comparative and cross-historical perspective. Several theories are presented to explain the variations, from gender-egalitarian to highly patriarchal groups.
Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4380 - Violence & Media
The course takes a theoretical approach to interpreting images of violence in photography, film and written text, following the work of theorists such as Roland Barthes, Mieke Bal, Teresa de Lauretis, Geoffrey Batchen. The course raises questions about differences between representing violence as documentary, testimony, or entertainment, the ethics of representing violence, and cultural patterns for viewing violent images in contemporary society.
Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or Permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
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SOC 4410 - Sociological Phenomenology
Explores the various ways in which phenomenology has shaped micro-sociological discourse on subjectivity, agency, and the lifeworld. Pre-requisites: Six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4420 - Sociology of Inequality
Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4510 - Topics in Sociology of Work
Studies the division of labor, occupational classification, labor force trends, career patterns and mobility, occupational cultures and life-styles, and the sociology of the labor market. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4550 - Topics in Ethics and Society
This course considers various ethical aspects of society in such areas as race, family, work, the economy, and memory. It focuses on sociological approaches to ethical and moral questions in modern society, drawing on empirical examples and case studies.
Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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SOC 4600 - Gender and Culture
Studies how the social definition of gender affects and is affected by cultural artifacts such as literature, movies, music, and television. Students are expected to be familiar with general sociological concepts and theory and be regularly prepared for participation in a demanding seminar. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4630 - Eastern European Societies
This course explores Eastern European societies through an examination of the practices of everyday social life. Topics include the changing cultural meanings of work and consumption, the nature of property rights and relations, family and gender, ethnicity and nationalism, religion and ritual.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4640 - Urban Sociology
Examines both classic and contemporary debates within urban sociology and relates them to the wider concerns of social theory. Topics include public space and urban culture, social segregation and inequality, the phenomenon of the global city, and the effects of economic change or urban social life. Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4680 - Sociology of Everyday
This course explores concepts and theories of the everyday developed in sociology and related disciplines. Drawing on concrete examples it examines how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane practices of everyday life. Among the topics to be discussed are the rules and rituals of everyday life; home, work, and leisure; the temporalities and rhythms of the everyday; patterns of mobility, and power and resistance.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4700 - Medical Sociology
Sociological orientation to understanding how and why the issues of health and disease have come to occupy such an important role in contemporary American society. Health issues are presented as a consequence of social change with an emphasis on population characteristics, working conditions, education, and mass communication in the United States. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4710 - Sociology of Organizations
Studies the formal organizations in government, industry, education, health care, religion, the arts, and voluntary associations. Considers such topics as power and authority, communication, ‘informal’ relations, commitment, and alienation. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4740 - Sociol Persp on Trauma, Atrocity, & Responsibility
Scholars have characterized the 20th century as an epoch of trauma and atrocity. Previous epochs were brutal also, but the nature of brutality and our vocabularies with which to understand it have been transformed dramatically over the last century. This course explores events (e.g. holocaust, genocide, atomic bombings) and institutional factors (e.g. media,law,philosophy) that have transformed our sense of vulnerability and our responses to it.
Prerequisites: 6 credits of Sociology or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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SOC 4800 - Undergraduate Internship Program
Internship placement to be arranged by the supervising faculty. Students work in various agencies in the Charlottesville community such as health care delivery, social services, juvenile justice, etc. Regular class meetings with the supervising faculty to analyze the intern experience and discuss assigned reading. Only three credits can be counted toward sociology major. Prerequisite: Fourth-year sociology major with substantial completion of major requirements.
Credits: 4
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SOC 4810 - Undergraduate Internship Programs Seminar
Internship placement to be arranged by the supervising faculty. Students work in various agencies in the Charlottesville community such as health care delivery, social services, juvenile justice, etc. Regular class meetings with the supervising faculty to analyze the intern experience and discuss assigned reading. Only three credits can be counted toward sociology major. Prerequisite: Fourth-year sociology major with substantial completion of major requirements.
Credits: 4
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SOC 4820 - Undergraduate Internship Program
Internship placement to be arranged by the supervising faculty. Students work in various agencies in the Charlottesville community such as health care delivery, social services, juvenile justice, etc. Regular class meetings with the supervising faculty to analyze the intern experience and discuss assigned reading. Only three credits can be counted toward sociology major. Prerequisite: Fourth-year sociology major with substantial completion of major requirements.
Credits: 4
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SOC 4850 - Media, Culture and Society
Studies the linkage between mass communications and social life. Particular emphasis will be placed upon how electronic media affect public discourse and how electronic media affect behavior by rearranging social situations. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology courses or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4860 - Sociology of Religion
This course explores the role of religion in modern societies. It provides a broad comparative cultural and historical perspective, drawing on examples from America, Western Europe, and former communist countries of Eastern Europe. Topics include classic sociological theories of religion, church-state relations, civil religion, and religion and nationalism. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4870 - Immigration
Examines contemporary immigration into the United States from the point of view of key theoretical debates and historical circumstances that have shaped current American attitudes toward immigration.
Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4970 - Special Studies in Sociology
An independent study project conducted by students under the supervision of an instructor of their choice. Prerequisite: Fourth-year students with a minimum GPA of 3.2 in sociology (or overall GPA of 3.2 for non-majors) and instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SOC 4980 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Research
Independent research, under the supervision of a DM faculty adviser, for the DMP thesis.
Prerequisites: SOC 3120 and Admission to the Distinguished Majors Program in Sociology.
Credits: 3
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SOC 4981 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing
Writing of the DMP thesis under the supervision of a DM faculty adviser. Prerequisite: SOC 4980
Credits: 3
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SATR 2000 - Introduction to South Asian Literature
Surveys classical to contemporary South Asian languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu) and literature translated into, or written in, English.
Credits: 3
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SATR 2010 - Remembering India’s Partition through Literature and Poetry
The readings for this course have been put together with the premise that literature, even that which is written at the height of nationalist struggles, does not relate the exact same story that nationalism does. The readings for this course present a view of pre-partition and post-partition India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, especially through the novels of Muslim South Asian writers like Abdullah Hussein and Intezar Hussain.
Credits: 3
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SATR 2110 - Cultural Translation: Travel Writing in South Asia
Travel writing is among the oldest forms of literature, especially in Asia. This course explores depictions of the Indian sub-continent by travel writers from Buddhist pilgrims to Arab geographers to colonial and post-colonial writers.
Credits: 3
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SATR 2300 - Colonial and Postcolonial Bengali Literature in Translation
This course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of Bengali literature as it has developed through the colonial and postcolonial periods. This course critically examines the questions of western literary influences on Bengali literature and their successful/unsuccessful appropriations/adoptions by Bengali writers.
Credits: 3
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SATR 3000 - Women Writing in India & Pakistan: 1947-Present
We will read and critique the fiction and poetry of culturally specific regions while reflecting on the assumption that experiences and identities are fundamentally gendered. We will explore issues associated with women writing in regional languages to writing in mainstream languages like Hindi, Urdu and English. We will also examine how the publication and dissemination of women’s texts are related to the women movements in India and Pakistan. Prerequisite: Completion of First Writing Requirement
Credits: 3
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SATR 3010 - Colors of Loneliness: Literature of Diasporic Imagination
An upper-level undergraduate seminar on South Asian Literature translated into or written in English that focuses on dislocation both metaphorical and temporal and how the filters of time and memory operate on imagination creating ‘fictions.’
Credits: 3
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SATR 3110 - Modern Urdu-Hindi Literature
This upper level course will comprise readings that will cover a broad spectrum of what constitutes the “modern” in Urdu and Hindi Literature. The course will track the historical beginning of Urdu-Hindi as a language, its development as a literary language and the complexities of the divide form one to two distinct languages: modern Hindi and modern Urdu.
Credits: 3
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SATR 3280 - Poetry of Passionate Devotion:The Ghazal
In this course we will read selections from some of the best classical Urdu and Persian lyric poetry. we will learn about the conventions of love in Urdu literary culture and the poetics of the ghazal in general. We will explore the different possibilities of interpretation: how the line between sacred and profane love (ishq) is often blurred, the relationship of poetry to mystical inspiration and so on.
Credits: 3
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SATR 3300 - Literature & Society in South Asia: Breaking the Cast(e)
Dalit literature is perhaps the most remarkable literary movement to emerge in post-independence India. It is the voice of the most marginalized section of India’s population, those formerly known as untouchables. Until the advent of Dalit literature, the lives of Dalits had seldom been recorded in Indian literature. We will read fictional and non-fictional narratives of Dalit writers, and watch films to visualize and comprehend their lives.
Prerequisite: SATR 7300 (graduate section)
Credits: 3
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SATR 3700 - Medieval Indian Literature: Vernacular and Bhakti Revolution
This course explores the classic authors and texts of the Indian pre-modern literary period 700 - 1650 CE, which saw the rise of devotional Hinduism, the arrival of Islam in India and its fundamental influence on Indian literature, and the use of vernacular - regional languages in literature.
Credits: 3
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SAST 1100 - Introduction to South Asia
Introduces South Asian economy and environment, caste and society, gender issues, history and political science, secularism-law-religion, philosophy, languages and literatures, theater-music-dance, and visual arts. Emphasizes the colonial and post colonial periods.
Credits: 3
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SAST 1300 - Under the Colonized-Gaze: British Empire and its Indian Subjects
This course focuses on writings by Indians (mainly Bengali writers) during the colonial period to examine the existing relational nature between the colonizer (the British) and the colonized (Indians). In doing so the course also focuses on the wider significance of Bengali writings how they encapsulated discourses on nation, race and gender.
Credits: 3
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SAST 2050 - Classics of Indian Literature
A survey of the foundational, formative and paradigmatic classic texts of the Indian Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Islamic and Sikh religio-literary-cultural traditions.
Credits: 3
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SAST 2060 - Bollywood Dreams: Indian Cinema
Survey of Indian (particulary Hindi-language) cinema from ca. 1910 to the present, concentrating on films made after independence (1947).
Credits: 3
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SAST 2200 - Delhi: The Gateway to India
The course utilizes the ever changing map of India’s capital and its seven cities to introduce medieval, pre-modern and modern India. Delhi is a microcosm of India’s history. It is also home to India’s most important government and cultural institutions. A visit to the Mughal city of Agra (Taj Mahal) and the Rajput ‘capital’, Jaipur is included.
Credits: 3
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SAST 2700 - Indian Politics and Society
The course provides an overview of key issues in the study of contemporary Indian politics. Particular attention is paid to the successes and challenges of Indian democracy. The course examines the historical background to the establishment of democracy; the evolution of political institutions and processes, and foreign and economic policy; and contemporary identity politics (including gender, religion and caste). Cross-listed with PLCP 2700.
Credits: 3
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SAST 3300 - The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos
This class will focus on cinema produced by the industry in Mumbai, popularly called Bollywood. Topics will include the relationship between fiction and documentation, between melodrama and realism, music and affect. Students will be taught the tools of film analysis and will be expected to watch and unpack films each week. They will also be expected to consider films in the social, political and economic contexts in which they were made.
Credits: 3
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SAST 3400 - Pop Culture in S. Asia: Advertising, Visual Aesth., Posters & Photography
This course will examine popular visual aesthetics in South Asia. We will look at the aesthetics of visual culture from the 19th century to the present. Students will be trained to consider popular culture, to think about the relationship between high art forms such as painting and multi-media and the more seemingly mundane aesthetics of press photography, posters, billboards, teaching posters, etc., and the new spate of financial advertising.
Credits: 3
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SAST 3450 - The Languages of South Asia
An examination of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of South Asian languages from typological, social, and historical perspectives. No knowledge of a South Asian language or linguistics is required.
Credits: 3
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SAST 3640 - Women & Politics in S Asia
This course examines the role of women in politics in the countries of South Asia (including India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan) from the colonial to the modern period. Particular attention is paid to issues of democracy and authoritarian rule; identity politics (including religion, nationalism, and caste); political institutions and processes; and political violence. Cross-listed with PLCP 3640.
Credits: 3
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SAST 4991 - South Asian Studies Capstone Seminar
This is the fourth-year capstone seminar for students majoring in South Asian Studies. This course will draw on the multidisciplinary interests of the students who participate to create a collaborative and collegial environment in which to investigate some of the foundational concepts and categories involved in the construction of “South Asia” as unified area of academic discourse.
Credits: 3
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SAST 4993 - Colonial Indians in the West: Negotiation, Appropriation and Assimilation
The present course focuses on writings by Indians during the colonial period and beyond to examine the existing relational nature between the Indians and the West. In doing so the course also focuses on the wider significance of Indian writings how they encapsulated discourses on identity and how they negotiated or assimilated in the Western cultural milieu while they are traveling to the West. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
Credits: 1 to 3
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SPAN 116 - Intensive Introductory Spanish
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1016.
Credits: 0
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SPAN 126 - Intensive Introductory Spanish
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1026.
Credits: 0
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SPAN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 2016.
Credits: 0
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SPAN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 2026.
Credits: 0
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SPAN 1010 - Elementary Spanish
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 1010 and 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: For students who have not previously studied Spanish.
Credits: 4
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SPAN 1016 - Intensive Introductory Spanish
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 1020 - Elementary Spanish
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 1010 and 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: For students who have not previously studied Spanish.
Credits: 4
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SPAN 1026 - Intensive Introductory Spanish
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: SPAN 1016 or equavalent.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Spanish
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Five class hours. Covers the material in SPAN 1010-1020 in an accelerated one semester format. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in Spanish (1-2 years of high school Spanish) and Spanish placement exam score of 0-325, or SAT II score of 420-510.
Credits: 4
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SPAN 2010 - Intermediate Spanish
Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 2010 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Spanish-speaking audiences. Three class hours. Laboratory work is required. Followed by SPAN 2020. Prerequisite: Passing grade in SPAN 1020 or 1060; a score of 520-590 on the SAT II test; 326-409 on the UVa placement test; or permission of the department.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 2015 - Spanish for Engineering
Spanish for Engineering is a three-credit intermediate level course designed to provide a thorough foundation in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but focuses on the development of communication skills in a professional context for Engineering.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: SPAN 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 2020 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish
Enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations and handle complications (e.g., asking for, understanding and giving directions, expressing happiness and affection, and persuading). Students may choose either SPAN 2020A, which includes reading literary and cultural selections or SPAN 2020C, which includes selected medical readings. Three class hours. Laboratory work is required. Prerequisite: Passing grade in SPAN 2010; SAT II test scores of 600-640; UVa placement test score of 410-535; IB exam score of 5 or 6; or permission of the department. Note: Prerequisite for the following courses: SPAN 2020 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: SPAN 1016 , 1026 and 2016 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 2100 - The Social Support Systems of Latin America
A supervised internship fort students interested in the health care professions and sociology as a complement to SPAN 2020 during the UVa Summer Spanish program. The latter includes health care, education, and other social services like social security and old age benefits. Final research paper required
Credits: 1
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SPAN 3000 - Phonetics
Conducted in Spanish.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3010 - Grammar and Composition I
This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3020 - Grammar and Composition II
This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the comparative essay, the argumentative essay, and the research paper.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3030 - Cultural Conversations
Conversation course devoted to different aspects of Spanish, Spanish American, or Latino culture. Student-led discussion of materials ranging from films and music videos to radio programs, newspapers, and the Internet. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3031 - Conversation Cinema: Latin America
Conversation course whose subject matter is Latin American cinema. Films will be discussed in the context of the history and culture of various countries. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3032 - Conversation Cinema - Spain
This is conversation course in Spanish, with a focus on Spanish film. It is closed to native and heritage speakers, and to students who have had a conversation course already; instructor permission required. Students will improve vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and pronunciation. Class participation is essential. Quizzes, daily activities, short written paper, oral final exam.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3040 - Business Spanish
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3050 - Spanish for Medical Professionals
This course is designed for students planning to work in the health care field and who want to develop fundamental written and oral skills and vocabulary for the assessment of Spanish speaking patients in a variety of settings. Students will gain familiarity with non-technical and semi-technical functional vocabulary, along with idiomatic expressions and situational phrases that are used in medical Spanish.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3200 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Conducted in Spanish.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3300 - Texts and Interpretation
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement. Note: SPAN 3300 or instructor permission is prerequisite for any course in Spanish literature or culture with a number above SPAN 3300.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3400 - Survey of Spanish Literature I (Middle Ages to 1700)
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3410 - Survey of Spanish Literature II (1700 to Present)
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3420 - Survey of Latin American Literature I (Colonial to 1900)
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 3430 - Survey of Latin American Literature II (1900 to Present)
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4010 - Advanced Grammar and Composition
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4040 - Translation from Spanish to English
Translation Spanish and English Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4050 - Business Practices in the Spanish-speaking World
This course is designed to prepare students for careers in international business by introducing them to business practices, trade organizations, and financial institutions in the Spanish-speaking world. A secondary goal is to help students attain a more sophisticated level of speaking and writing in Spanish, through readings, discussion, and written assigments in Spanish.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4200 - History of the Language
Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4201 - Hispanic Dialectology and Bilingualism
Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3010 and 3010, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4202 - Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4203 - Structure of Spanish
This is an advanced introduction to the study of fundamental aspects of the sound and grammatical systems of the Spanish language. The course will start by analyzing present-day (syllable, word and phrase) structures of the language and it will progress toward a more detailed examination of some of the linguistic processes and changes involved in the development of those structures. Prior coursework in linguistics is expected. Pre-requisites: SPAN 3015 Phonetics and SPAN 3200 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4210 - History of the Spanish Language II
The course examines the development of the Spanish language through texts produced from the Middle Ages to the present day. The main goal will be the interpretation of individual texts as a source of linguistic data and the analysis of language in its cultural, social and historical context. Including texts from Latin American and Spain, the commentary will cover the analysis of phonological, grammatical and lexical aspects. Pre-requisites: SPAN 3015 and SPAN 3200
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4220 - Linguistic Theories of Writing: The Advanced Language Learner
Following systemic functional linguistics, this course examines the advanced capacities of first, second, and heritage language learners. Its main goal is to describe how these capacities are realized linguistically in written (academic) language ‘among other means’ through lexical density, grammatical metaphor, clause-combining strategies, and impersonality. Prior coursework in linguistics is expected. Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4300 - Latin-American Literature from Colonial Period to 1900
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4310 - Latin American Women Writers from 1900 to the Present
Study of major Latin American women writers from 1900 to the present, including poets, essayists, playwrights, and fiction writers. Discussion will focus on the literary representation of issues related to gender and culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4311 - Latin-American Literature After 1900
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4312 - Mexican Literature
Study of major literary works from the 20th and 21st centuries by Mexican authors, including poetry, fiction, essay and/or theatre. Discussion will focus on literary representation, historical and gender issues relevant to this period in Mexican society. Prerequisites: SPAN 3300; SPAN 3430 Highly Recommended
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4319 - Borges
This course offers an overview of Borges’ short stories and some essays and poems. The aim is to present Borges as dominating the great shift in literary sensibility in Spanish America in the 1940s, his influence on the ‘Boom’ and the relevance of his work to the notions of Modernism and Post-modernism in the Anglo-Saxon sense. The course will attempt to cover not only the thematics of Borges’ main works but also his innovations in technique. Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and 3300 or departmental permission.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4320 - Contemporary Latin-American Short Fiction
Contemporary Latin-American Short Fiction Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4321 - Contemporary Latin-American Novel
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4400 - Spanish Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4401 - Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Spanish Literature of the Golden Age Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4402 - Don Quixote
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4410 - Spanish Literature from the Enlightenment to Romanticism
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4412 - Spanish Literature from Realism to the Generation of 1898
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4413 - Modern Spanish Literature
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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